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My wife and I had just finished fixing up our room (and getting rid of junk on the headboard, floors, walls, and everywhere else) and we were determined to have at least one room in our house be nice all the time instead of junked out like normal. Everyday we kept our headboard clean and orderly. Normally when we cleaned up stuff and got everything nice it would only take leaving one thing on the headboard and then it would multiply and within a week we would have a mess again. So we did well having our room be nice and organized for about three months.
Then I was diagnosed with sleep apnea!
I was disappointed to have to have our nice room disrupted by all the cpap stuff. I was determined to keep my room looking nice. So I cleaned out my top drawer, put power into the drawer with an extension cord and keep almost everything in the drawer. At night I close the drawer except for the hose coming out and it helps soften the sound of the machine and also I don't get bothered by the blue lights. During the day I disconnect the hose and put it in my closet. Works great.
The next step was to figure out the hose management situation. What I came up with is a swinging arm that is able to track my body as I roll around. I bought shelf support made out of metal. To that I screwed a piece of wood about three feet long. On that wood I drilled two holes, one at the end and one at the mid point. Through the holes I threaded some nylon cord and made a loop with the knot on the other side. This is where i hang a small bungee cord. One end is the hook and the other end is tied around the hose. Then I took the shelf support and bolted two hinges to it and then bolted the hinges to a piece of metal. This piece of metal was designed to be slide into a slot behind the headboard. So the end result is a hose holder that tracks or follows me when I am sleeping and then can be removed and put in the closet for the day, keeping my room looking nice. And it works well too. I do not hardly ever get bothered by my hose. I use the mid point loop for using over the head type of masks such as the aura twilight np. I use the front loop for my hybrid which has the hose going away from me. I took some pictures which will hopefully help you understand all the talkin!!
Maybe this will help somebody with a few ideas. My brother and I together dreamed up this apparatus. His is a little different in that he just mounted it to the wall permanently and doesn't take it down each day. Another idea would be to some how mount it to the wall like he does but also make it removable so you can avoid the cpap look (if you even care!).
Here are the pics, they are on photobucket in a slideshow (which you can pause). I hope it works.Just click on the picture and when you are watching the slideshow mouse over the image and a pause button will appear. First time doing this so please excuse my over explaining!!!
Happy dreaming,
Jon
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